The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-26
FHE FIELD OF LUNDY'S LANE.
Scene Of the Greatest Land Battle
Of the War of 1912.

In little typical English inn of the
time of Addison and Steele, says a
writer fn the Boston Advertiser, we sit
down to luncheon OF chops and ale,
for which the modest sum of thirty-fve
cents is charged. We are in the Cana
dian village of Drummondville-na
in honor of General Drummond. of the
British army-and the scene of the fam
Gus battle of Lundy's Lane. The vii
iags consists of one main street lined
with shade trees. Plain but substantial
houses face the road with neat little
yards in front. Lundy's Lane cuts the
main street at right angles. On the
corner lives the squire of the village,
kinsman of James Russell Lowell, a
descendant of the Boston Lowell who
emigrated from Boston to Canada West
early in the present century. Close at
hand are the two rival taverns glazing
savagely upon one another from oppo-
site sides of the street, and displaying
iauntily their gay signs on swinging
supports, which also serve as their
shields and armor bright.
The spot is now occupied by country
graveyard, with an old stone church
close at hand. Some of the gravestones
are interesting. Here is a monument
erected IN memory of the British of
ficers who fell on the battlefield. a
simple slab marks the burial place of
one of the Cecils, kinsman of the pres
ent Prime Minister of England, and
who, had he lived, would have been
British baronet. Here lies Captain
Hall, an American officer. On the OPP
posite side of the road is blacksmith
shop. We enter and ask the smith
what he knows of the contest.
/. The place where the battle was fought
is on little hill, scarcely more than an
eighth of mile from the village. 1t
was the aim of the Americans TO dis
lodge the British from the position they
held in occupying this little rise OF
ground. The Americans, under Brown,
had set out from Niagara Falls, but
mile away, with the intention of clear
jects. Here they met their first effectual
resistance.
F'It was intended at frsI TO burn only
the Americans, but the Yanks were so
thin and raw-boned that a few fat
Englishmen were needed to oil the
thing up. So the dead of both sides
were burned. When | was q boy we
used to find all about here musket balls,
sword hits. rusty pistols, ETC., but now
they have all gone.
THE battle was a drawn one. The
two armies were almost equally
matched IN point of numbers. Fight
ing began about 4 o'clock the afternoon
of the oath of July, 1914, and was con-
tinued by moonlight until about u,
when the moon went into cloud and
the men could see to fight no longer.
The British we're left in possession of
the field, and when they awoke the
next morning they found that the
Americans had fallen back toward the
river. As it was in the middle of sum-
mer, and very hot and sultry, it was
found that there was not time to bury
the dead. So they we're thrown to-
gether in piles, and, with fence rails
for kindling wood, the dead were got
quickly out of the way"
As l was going down the hill on my
way back to the falls L came across
very gentlemanly-looking old man,
VINO proved to be the squire of the vii
lage, Mr.. Lowell. He was very COM
municative, and entered iRto long
conversation. Just here where we are
standing your Miller made series of
great charges to take our cannon. In
the first two charges lie wa.luasuccess-
full. The third time, rushing before his
men with great dash, he waved his |
sword in the air over his head, and |
shouted, Now, - you, come along"
The guns of the British were taken and |
spiked in a whirlwind of dust and
smoke, but in the course of the battle !
were retaken again by our side.
"Yonder hill was taken and retaken |
six times in the course of the fight. |
Gen. Scott took prominent part in the |
battle. and few years before he died
visited Drummondville and heard, with !
a good laugh, of our hgying to grease
up the raw-boned Yankees with fat
Englishmen to make them burn the day
after the bate. We hope before long
to erect q monument on this height
concentrating the greatest land en-
gagement of the war of 1912, the battle
of Lundy's Lane or Niagara Falls"